TX:African church plans Christian Disneyland (neighbor:"we'll be overrun") [View All]

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The Redeemed Christian Church of God – Africa's largest and most ambitious evangelical church – plans to build a 10,000-seat sanctuary, two elementary school-size lecture centers, a dormitory, several cottages, a lake and a Christian-themed water park across a creek bottom from Ms. Moody's homestead.

The project that one senior pastor described as a "Christian Disneyland" is still in the early stages. So far, the Nigeria-based church has spent between $1 million and $3 million on about 500 acres of pasture – more land than the proposed Dallas Cowboys stadium complex in Arlington.

"I don't like to be called a racist, but I don't like to be overrun, either," Mrs. Moody said recently, sitting under her carport in Mockingbird Estates, a patchwork of modest homes, tree-studded land and rock roads. "They live different, they think different, they have different cultures," she said. "I don't have any problem with black people. ... I just feel uncomfortable in large numbers of them."

Call it redneck, race-baiting, irrational or ignorant, but for many people who live in Floyd, a fading railroad stop on the rural fringes of Hunt County, Mrs. Moody's comments reflect their reality.